New stove provides a Christmas blessing

January 8, 2013

I would just like to take a moment to express how eternally grateful I am to the Restore in Winchester.They saved my life and my family's life! Recently, my husband went to the restore and purchased me a new (used) stove for an early Christmas gift because my stove had warped burners and I had to put a cup under the handle of the pans to make it level on the burners. So on Christmas Day my husband and I carried the new stove into the house to clean it up and replace my old one.

When we went to plug it in, I realized it had a different cord on it so I decided to take the cord off of my old stove to use on the new one. That's when I realized just how lucky my husband and I and our three kids actually were. The red wire on our old stove (which is the hot wire) was completely fried to a crisp and turned black and melted the coating off of the wire. We were only moments away from having a house fire! I just sat there and cried! I was in disbelief! You hear about house fires all the time and to think we were going to be the next victim of one. My old stove worked fine! I never would have replaced it because we just didn't have the money at this time to buy a new one. I wish there were some way to find the person who donated their stove to the Restore and thank them. My husband would never have bought a new stove if it weren't for their generosity, and our house surely would have burnt down. I am so grateful for this Christmas blessing and the generosity of others.